Genesis 9:26

And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

1. Noah said, "Blessed be the LORD God of Shem."
2. Shem was apparently a worshipper of the LORD God.
3. If the LORD God was blessed, who blessed Him, and why did Noah say this?
4. Canaan was to be Shem's servant. To me, this actually reads as if Noah said that Canaan would be the LORD God's servant, but in context with the following verse it appears it is the way I have stated it.
5. Actually, there was and is nothing about being occupied as a servant that prevents a person from being a servant of God, especially to someone like Shem. So, I wonder if this isn't one of those curses that is a blessing in disguise. Many people in looking back over their lives recognize that what appeared to be a curse at the time was actually a great blessing to them.
6. In context with the following verse it seems fairly certain that Noah was prophecying concerning the future of his posterity.
7. The descendants of Shem would worship the LORD God (I don't believe this necessarily means always or perfectly).
8. The descendants of Canaan would be servants to the posterity of Shem. (There are all sorts of interpretations of this, but I don't see anything here supporting further conjecture.)